Nathan is the founder and CEO of The Greenfield Guild, a consulting firm designed to bring DevOps, Cloud Native and Open Source practices and tools to wider audiences. Throughout his two decades in the industry he has worked at companies like Bazaarvoice, Infochimps, and Steve Jackson Games as a system administrator and operations engineer where his primary focus has been on building stable and repeatable infrastructure, often from the ground up. In his off time he enjoys tinkering with blockchain and machine learning, medieval war reenactments and dancing